Javier Fernandez was born in 1981 in Spain. He started to get interested in the comic book arts thanks to his older brother, who introduced the young Javier, without realizing it, to his future pro career. For years he combined his artistic work with other less artistic work in order to live.

2010 marks the start of Javier Fernandez‘s career as a comic-book artist, with the release of Hero Complex (Kickstart Comics). Created by the authors Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman, Hero Complex is a satyrical comedy about the superhero world. Later in 2011, Javier has worked on the comic-book adaptation of Jules Verne’s The Voyages extraordinaires, El Testamento de un Excéntrico (Clair de Lune). This year is mostly the one during wich Javier started to work with Marvel, on Captain America, the first Vengance, the official prequel to Marvel Studios’ Captain America first movie. Finally, Javier has found again a World War II survivor in 2014 with the Magneto series, with the author Cullen Bunn.

Since 2015, Javier has mostly worked for DC Comics on series like Earth 2, Batman Eternal and on mini-series like Doomed. More recently, he relaunched with the author Tom Seeley the Nightwing series. Nowadays, he is living his dream by doing what he dreamed about as a child. He also has other dreams: to have a cat and drive a mustang… someday.

Top Cow’s founder, Marc Silvestri (1959-) is the first influence of Javier Fernandez, and by he Javier is today a comic book artist. The young Spanish artist is also influenced by the comic-book artists Mike Mignola (1962-) and Sean Murphy (1980-). The three of them share the same elegant lines, some strong contrasts between the blacks and the whites, and a lot of chiaroscuro. Javier Fernandez also looks into the french comic-book art, particularly into Moebius (1938-2012) and François Boucq (1955-).